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Now Available – Lupulin Brewing!

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We now have Lupulin Brewing available!!

Lupulin is a local craft brewery right in Big Lake, Minnesota!

Lupulin Brewing is a family owned and family run craft brewery. Jeff and Matt did not go out and hire an outside head brewer to brew beer for them. All of the recipes are created by the founders and are still brewed with the same care and craft spirit that survived in the “garage era” of Lupulin Brewing. You will often find multiple family members helping to pour pints on Friday nights in the taproom, along with Jeff’s son Aaron (who Jeff and Matt sent to apprentice at a brewery in Stockholm, Sweden before the brewery opened) taking care of many of the day to day operations around the brewery like cleaning kegs and tanks and helping out with brewing.

Whose Day Tuesday! – It’s Russ’s Day!

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Whose Day is it this Tuesday?!

It’s Russ Block’s day for Whose Day Tuesday!

Let’s learn some fun facts about Russ!

 

When did you start at Schott Distributing?

February of 1992

 

What is your job title? Describe in 3 words

Draft Technician Manager

 

What is your favorite part of your job?

The people in the market you make good friends, everyday you meet new challenges To quote Tom Schott ” Making friends is our business”

 

What is your go-to beer and why?

I quit, but when I did partake it was Budweiser or Bud Light.

 

What is your favorite thing to do when not at work?

Spend time with family grand kids really make me smile. Hunting relaxes me as well.

 

Who would you most like to swap places with for the day? Famous or not

It would be interesting to trade places with a cowboy in the old west.

 

If you could visit anywhere in the world you’ve never been, where would you go?

I’m thinking Australia

 

What’s in your coffee?

Don’t drink coffee

 

What is your favorite food?

My MOM’S Pork Chops

 

*You can find Russ literally every where – he takes care of ALL of our accounts tap lines.  One morning he could be in Kasson and later that afternoon you’ll find him in Albert Lea!

Cheers Russ!

Featured Brewery: Kona

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Aloha. That’s how most conversations begin here. It’s also how many of them end. But “Aloha” doesn’t just mean hello and goodbye and love and welcome. It means more than a word can express. It’s a feeling. A way of life. “Aloha” is the idea that we are all connected to everyone and everything around us and that true joy is found in respecting this connection. And it’s in this aloha spirit that the Kona Brewing Company was founded back in 1994 by Cameron Healy and his son Spoon Khalsa. They combined their love of Hawaii and its pristine, natural beauty with their fondness for delicious, local brews, and lucky for us, their dream lives on more than 20 years later.

So try a few of them. And join us in our pursuit of aloha.

Kona Brewing Company was founded by father and son team Cameron Healy and Spoon Khalsa. The pair had a vision to reflect the spirit, culture, and beauty of Hawaii in a collection of local island craft beers, so in 1994 they set out for the Big Island to bring their dream to life.

Flash forward to today, and Kona Brewing has become one of the best-selling craft beer brands in the world. But despite our global success, we’ve managed to stay true to our Hawaiian roots through innovation, sustainability and community outreach. And we’re still headquartered where it all began, in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Whose Day Tuesday! – It’s Brianna’s Day!

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Whose Day is it this Tuesday?!

It’s Brianna Ihrke’s day for Whose Day Tuesday!

Let’s learn some fun facts about Brianna!

*When did you start at Schott Distributing?
August 2015

 

*What is your job title? And describe in 3 words
Graphic Technician AKA Sign Maker

 

*What is your favorite part of you job?
Designing beer menus

 

*What is your go-to beer and why?
Alaskan Amber for it’s smooth flavor or Goose Island IPA because it’s awesome.

 

*What is your favorite thing to do when not at work?
Cooking

 

*Who would you most like to swap places with for the day? Famous or not
Aaron Kelley because he has an awesome team leader

 

*If you could visit anywhere in the world you’ve never been, where would you go?
Ireland

 

*What’s in your coffee?
Depends on the day. Sometimes black, and sometimes with some flavored cream.

 

*What is your favorite food?
Sushi

+You can find Brianna being a modern day Picasso in our sign shop but you can find her artwork on display at many of our accounts(bars!)
-For those of you who do not know, Troy Peterson is AK’s team leader and he in no way influenced Brianna’s answer-

Cheers Brianna!

Featured Brewery: Oskar Blues

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In 2002, a funky little Colorado grown brew-pub started stuffing their huge, voluminously hopped mutha of a pale ale in a can (Dale’s Pale Ale). That not only began the craft-beer-in-a-can craze, but has grown to add a brewery to the hills of Pisgah National Forest in Brevard, NC and another in the Live Music Capital of the World, Austin, TX, in 2016. Cans keep beer fresher, longer by eliminating the damaging effects of light and ingressed oxygen while being infinitely recyclable and portable…taking them where your next soul saving adventure takes you.

Oskar Blues Brewery is a craft brewery with locations in Longmont, Colorado, Brevard, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas. The company began as a brewpub in Lyons in 1997 and began brewing beer in the basement in 1999. In 2002, they became one of the first to put their own craft beer in cans. In 2012, they began marketing some of their craft beer in resealable aluminum containers, and in 2012, they expanded and established another brewery in Brevard, North Carolina. Unlike many craft breweries, Oskar Blues only packages their beer in cans and kegs, not bottles.